Thoroughbred Horses Quotes

• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  Patricia Neal

  Heart, Giving, Speed

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Family, Friends

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• I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

  Wilford Brimley

  Horse, People, Use

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• Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Horse, Children, Texas

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• I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

  John Galsworthy

  Beautiful, Horse, Inspiration

  John Galsworthy (1937). “Glimpses & Reflections”

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• Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Beautiful, Money, Horse

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Nov 01, 2009

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• The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Horse, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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• The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Inspiration, Movement

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Dream, Horse

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Horse, Team

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